Paul Salzman is a Reader in English Literature at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely in the areas of early modern prose fiction, early modern cultural history, and early modern women's writing. His last book was a literary/cultural history of a single year, <i>Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621</i>. He has also edited four Oxford World's Classics volumes, the most recent of which was <i>Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700</i>.